FOOD FUN: Coconut Cake & A Palm Tree Cookie

Bathing suit optional. Photo courtesy Fishtail | NYC.   This inspiration comes from one of our favorite seafood restaurants, David Burke’s Fishtail in New York City. If you’re missing the warmth of summer, evoke the tropics with this creative dessert: an individual coconut cake garnished with “drunken” mango salsa (add rum to a sweet mango…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Ginger Miso Salad Dressing Recipe

The other week we went shopping at a large Japanese superstore (and the largest Japanese supermarket in the U.S.), Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater, New Jersey. Strolling up and down the aisles, we wandered into the salad dressing area. We found ourselves hungering for a big salad with ginger-miso dressing—the type of dressing, often orange in…
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FOOD FUN: The Banana Police

Here are two of the amazing banana dishes we found on TheBananaPolice.com. There’s quite a selection of them, turned into create fruit plates and cereal. And there are simpler versions that any of us could create. See them all at TheBananaPolice.com: boats, butterflies, cars, dogs, dolphins, elephants, horses, snails, sunsets, trees and more. The website…
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